Quotes about anything

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“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”

“Anything a person chases in life runs away.”

“I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.”

“we're anything brighter than even the sun”

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”

“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”

“I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”

“Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”

“There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.”

“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”

“What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.”

“Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls”

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.”

“Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.”

“Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?”

“Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.”

“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”

“If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

“Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.”

“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.”

“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.”

“Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.”

“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again…. Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love…”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”

“I think… that when it comes to us, anything is possible.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“When you told me the first time that Valentine was your father, I didn't believe it. Not just because I didn't want it to be true, but because you weren't anything like him. I've never thought you're anything like him. But you are. You are.”

“Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.”

“I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”

“Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

Kitty: PMS?

Lara: No. It's not PMS. Just because a girl is sad, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with PMS.”

“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

“My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.”

“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.

But holes are interesting things.”

“Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!”

“Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.”

“There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.”

“I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)”

“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”

“… why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.”

“He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.”

“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.”

“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”

“Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.”

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.”

“Do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.”

“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”

“Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.”

“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.”

“Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.”

“Anything can become music if listened to long enough”

“If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.”

“And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.”

“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”

“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.”

“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

“What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?”

“You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?"
"Yes," Percy said. "I declare this is stupid.”

“I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.”

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”

“…"We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun."…”

“She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong”

“… Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.”

“By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself”

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change”

“It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”

“But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.”

“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.”

“It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working”

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”

“[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.”

“Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.”

“Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.”

“Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.”

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else”

“Do you ever think of anything
but sex?”
“Yes, I do. Sometimes I think of waking up next to you. Or making you laugh.”

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.”

“The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”

“By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius)
Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)”

“You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?”

“Harry Dresden: Maybe it wasn't anything I'd done. Maybe the monsters had gone on strike. Yeah right.”